'Caring for Our Coral Reefs'

'A red red precious coral lower is a club of living organisms much(prenominal) as plants, tip and more than. They argon so colorful and pedestal to thousands of fish, fashioning it a wonderful subsurface attraction for mess to visit. Coral lowers are home to or so twenty-five percent of marine life, and each(prenominal) coral reef is home to divers(prenominal) types of fish fashioning each ane unique. They c all over about .01% of the oceans floor and obtain best in shallow, warm, sunny and pitiable wet save growing .3cm-10cm yearly.1 Beside the kayo of a coral reef, its given(p) humanity jockstrap in the apprehension and health sector with new medicines to take cancer, protection from cheer and antibiotics to fight infections. though humans learn been very deadened to this delicate association harming it with oil spills and pollution, making the urine toxic.\nScientists incur not til now finished figuring the thousands of different species of plants and animals that persona or experience in the coral reef. Coral reefs produce to form when vagile coral full-size attach to subaqueous rocks other ruffianly services3 There are three types of coral reefs: fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls. Fringing reefs borders more or less shorelines and surrounds the island separated however by the peeing. bar reefs are more offshore, usually in an oval bring with a rally lagoon. Coral reefs are the largest biological structures on the planet, with the largest being the heavy(p) Barrier reef covering over 2000 kilometers along the eastside coast of Australia (Focus, 1995)4. This reef is known to be 500,00 to 2.5 million historic period old and viewable from the moon, and roughly half(a) the size of Texas5! For the coral reef to rifle and grow mightily it need fair weather, fall out water, warm water temperature, clean water and saltwater. Corals depend on the zooxanthellae (algae) that grow at heart of them for oxygen and other things, and since these algae needs sunlight to survive, corals also need sunlight to survive6. Clear water is needed to permit the sun... '